Detection of convective initiation using Meteosat SEVIRI: Implementation in and verification with the tracking and nowcasting algorithm Cb-TRAM

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1903-1918

  Merk, D ^a,b   Zinner, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DETECTION METHOD; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; METEOSAT; NOWCASTING; SEVIRI; TRACKING;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 84882419167     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-6-1903-2013     Document Type: Article

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